Job 17:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

They change the night into a day: The fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They change the night into day: The light is short because of darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

These [thoughts] extend from the night into the day, [so that] the light is short because of darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.

Common English Bible

They turn night into day; light is near because of the darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

They have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They have turned night into day: and after darkness I hope for light again.

Job 17:12 Cross References

Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the droughts of my heart.

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as mine house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Isaiah 5:20

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Deuteronomy 28:67

in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.